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Go behind the scenes of Comic Relief with this celebrity packed 360 degree VR video! Dave is in charge of photography – what could go wrong?
Also featuring Right Said Fred, Chico, The Chuckle Brothers, Sinitta, Mr Motivator and more! What are you doing for Comic Relief?

In The Comic Relief Experience you’ll find yourself as a new starter working at Comic Relief headquarters where you’ll get a silly sneak peek into how chaotic the office is in the run up to Red Nose Day. Use the YouTube controls to look around you.

With so much to do, it’s all hands on deck and the Comic Relief office is full of eager celebrities who have the best intentions to help out, but who, well, get in the way a bit. The stars getting their hands dirty for Comic Relief by taking on odd jobs around the office include: Christopher Biggins, Chico, Chuckle Brothers, Mr Motivator, Dave Benson Phillips, Right Said Fred and Sinitta.

It is, it appears, impossible to conduct a low-key gunging. “It’s a fiiiine day for an outdoor gunging,” roars Dave Benson Phillips as we walk towards Bristo Square. Within seconds, Phillips has pulled in a crowd and whipped them to a frenzy – the Fringe equivalent of a baying mob, yowling for the sight and smell of, erm, gunge. And this scrawny journalist, now barefoot on a blue tarpaulin, is the offering upon the altar of ’90s nostalgia. DBP begins the countdown – him shouting the even numbers, the rabble the odd ones. Three, two, one… More from FestMag story here!

Dave’s ‘Get Your Own Back’ show has received five star reviews at the Edinburgh festival, like this one from Kettle Magazine. “You could be forgiven for thinking you’d just come in from school and put the telly on.”